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Human Centeredness: The Foundation for Leadership-as-Practice in Complex Local/Regional Food Networks

Martinez, MaryAnn
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3942-222X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1624179376157514

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2021, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
Our local and regional food systems are predominately modeled on a failed capitalist market-based economy. In the absence of corporate accountability, and/or support on the federal policy level, local and regional leadership and self-organized networks are critical to the scaling across and evolution of a moral and equitable food system. Networked food systems leaders are developing the capacity to solve wicked problems, and spark change. Understanding the values and practices of local food systems leadership, that initiate, influence, and support activities is essential to understanding how to foster conditions for local and regional food network growth. My dissertation research is designed to better understand the leadership practices, values and use of power which contribute to the flourishing of food system networks. In this mixed method study, I set out to answer the question, “What is the nature of leadership in emerging local and regional food networks that provides the foundation for a network to strengthen and scale?” The leadership practices, values, and use of power in three local/regional food networks are studied; synthesizing social network analysis data with semi structured interviews, using the results of an iterative thematic analysis as the foundation from which to consider a critical analysis. This dissertation establishes Human Centeredness as a foundation for Leadership as Practice to occur in self-organized food systems networks. Human Centeredness, for the purposes of my framework and model, is a recognition of the importance and contribution that relationships and connection, essentially a human centered way of being make to laying the foundation for leadership as practice to occur. The findings also reveal the need for a greater understanding of the importance of power and accessing various forms of power within and beyond the known boundaries of networks. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, https://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/.
Donna Ladkin, PhD (Committee Chair)
Aqeel Tirmizi, PhD (Committee Member)
Claire Reinelt, PhD (Committee Member)
207 p.
Agricultural Economics; Agriculture; Climate Change; Ecology; Economics; Environmental Health; Geography; Personal Relationships; Political Science; Public Policy; Social Structure; Sustainability; Systematic
Crisis; Food Systems; Leadership; Self-Organized Networks; Social Change

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  • Martinez, M. (2021). Human Centeredness: The Foundation for Leadership-as-Practice in Complex Local/Regional Food Networks [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1624179376157514

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Martinez, MaryAnn. Human Centeredness: The Foundation for Leadership-as-Practice in Complex Local/Regional Food Networks . 2021. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1624179376157514.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Martinez, MaryAnn. "Human Centeredness: The Foundation for Leadership-as-Practice in Complex Local/Regional Food Networks ." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1624179376157514

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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